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Mansfield Community Hospital in Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

NHS England has revealed figures on how many doctors’ appointments had to be rescheduled during five days of industrial strike action which ended last month. Resident doctors went on strike between Friday, July 25, and Tuesday, July 29.

It saw, on some days, hundreds of appointments cancelled across singular hospital trusts’ regions. The NHS data shows statistics for both inpatient and outpatient appointments, with plenty more of those where resident doctors were due to visit patients at home being cancelled compared to visits to the actual doctors.

Across Nottinghamshire’s two hospital trusts, Nottingham University Hospitals ( NUH ) and Sherwood Forest Hospitals, nearly 1,500 appointments had to

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